Members of the USA team at the 22nd Olympiad, Haifa 1976. L to R: Larry Evans, Lubomir Kavalek, Robert Byrne.

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Hein Donner v. Lubomir Kavalek, Amsterdam IBM 1968.

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‏Boris Gelfand‌‏ & ‎Nigel Short‌‏

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🔸European Rapid Championship 2017
🔸Round 6
⚪️Dziuba,Marcin (2584)
⚫️Fedorchuk,Sergey A (2648)
🔸1-0

🔸European Rapid Championship 2017
🔸Round 6
⚪️Navara,David (2740)
⚫️Tomczak,Jacek (2588)
🔸1-0

🔹 Vladimir Kramnik
🔹 Russian chess Grandmaster

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🔹 Vladimir Kramnik
🔹 Russian chess Grandmaster


♦️ Full name: Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik
♦️ Country: Russia
♦️ Born: 25 June 1975 (age 42) Tuapse, Krasnodar Krai, Russian
♦️ Title: Grandmaster (1992)
♦️ World Champion: 2000–06 (Classical) 2006–07 (undisputed)
♦️ FIDE rating: 2787 (December 2017)
♦️ Peak rating: 2817 (October 2016)
♦️ Ranking: No. 7 (November 2017)
♦️ Peak ranking: No. 1 (January 1996)

🔹 Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik is a Russian chess grandmaster.
He was the Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and the undisputed World Chess Champion from 2006 to 2007.

🔹 Today's sellected game of Vladimir Kramnik: 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

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🔸 Vladimir Kramnik vs Levon Aronian
🔸 FIDE World Championship Tournament (2007), Mexico City , rd 14, Sep-29
🔸 Queen's Indian Defense: Fianchetto. Check Variation Intermezzo Line (E15)

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🔸 Vladimir Kramnik vs Levon Aronian
🔸 FIDE World Championship Tournament (2007), Mexico City , rd 14, Sep-29
🔸PGN format

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🔸European Rapid Championship 2017
🔸Round 5
⚪️Inarkiev,Ernesto (2689)
⚫️Jaracz,Pawel (2465)
🔸1-0

📘 33...Qe7
Jaracz who was in time trouble has played 33...Qe7, however, he could have obtained an advantage by playing 33...Qe5:
33...Qe5!! 34.R×b7 Qe1+ 35.Kh2 Bd6 idea Rd1 36.Qe4 Q×f2 37.Qf3 Q×f3 38.g×f3 Rd2+ 39.Kg1 B×g3 or Rd1+ -+

🔸European Rapid Championship 2017
🔸Round 5
⚪️Inarkiev,Ernesto (2689)
⚫️Jaracz,Pawel (2465)
🔸1-0

📘 40...Qd7?
Polish Grandmaster, replies to opponent's intermediate move with a tactical counter-blow.
41.R×f8! K×f8 42.Q×c5+ 1-0

🔸European Rapid Championship 2017
🔸Round 5
⚪️Fressinet,Laurent (2662)
⚫️Kourousis,Epaminondas (2393)
🔸1-0

📘 27.Rfd1?
Fressinet made a blunder which Kourousis, 26 years old Czech international master, didn't exploit.
27...Qc6
(27...B×a5! 28.Q×a5 Qc5+ 29.Kh1 Rg5 30.Rd7+ Kc8 -+ White must resign)

🔸European Rapid Championship 2017
🔸Round 6
⚪️Dziuba,Marcin (2584)
⚫️Fedorchuk,Sergey A (2648)
🔸1-0

📘 27...Kg8?
Ukrainian Grandmaster's carelessness which costs him the game.
(27...Kf8! White has to give perpetual check
28.Qe8+ Kg7 29.Ne5! a1=Q 30.Q×f7+ Kh6 31.Qf8+ Kh5 32.g4+ Kg5 33.f4+ 1-0

⚪️#179 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Fischer,Robert James
🔸Panno,Oscar
🔸Buenos Aires 1970

📘 18.g4!
A dual purpose-move:
1.Fischer clears the g3-square for the knight in preparation for a kingside assault.
2. By playing g4, Black's knight is deprived of the f5-square.
18.h4 Nf5.
18.Rc2 doubling the rooks on c-file does not fit with this position. 18...Qb6 19.Rec1? Bxe2!
Fischer thoroughly knows in the closed Sicilian the black king is the main target!